Topic: Engineering

Social networks aren’t just for the kids these days. Today’s professional online communities offer unprecedented opportunities to connect with peers, stay up-to-date on trends and best practices and find solutions for […]

Desktop Engineering’s editor-at-large Anthony Lockwood combs through dozens of new product releases each week to find the latest tool helping engineers innovate and create better designs. And this week, he chose Arena […]

Young, bright and fresh out of engineering school, Hardi Maybaum was sure of two things—the engineering process was too slow and complicated, and the only way around it is with more collaboration in the engineering […]

Choosing a part numbering scheme is one of the more important decisions you make as you move toward production. Once you commit to a part numbering scheme, you are married to it for a long time to come, so you need to […]

While well intentioned, intelligent numbering schemes can be a tricky rabbit hole—hostile to growth for a variety of reasons.

Your part numbering scheme is ultimately adopted by every team with a stake in product development—from design and engineering to operations and manufacturing—so it’s no surprise that choosing the right scheme is a […]

Whether a 6 a.m. jog around your neighborhood sounds like an ideal start to your day or the furthest thing from it, most techies can agree that incorporating the year’s most innovative and well-engineered gadgets into […]

Our early Arena PartSaver adopters asked us to support Jameco Electronics, and we heard you!

We’re excited to announce that Arena PartSaver now supports the Jameco Electronics website, making it easier than ever to […]

As closely as manufacturing and engineering work together, sometimes it feels like they are worlds apart. Engineers are told to design something, manufacturers are told to make something. Engineering opens the design […]

Once you’ve created a deeply nested BOM within your CAD program, sharing the information with other departments as a multi-level BOM from your PLM system is an intuitive next step.

One of the best parts of working at Arena is supporting the people who bring some of the world’s most innovative products to market.

You remember those friends in high school that didn’t like to show their work? I predict that many of them are now engineers. Most engineers I know see documentation as an obligatory and pointless chore, solely […]

This Valentine’s Day we are giving part numbering schemes a big juicy KISS. Parts are the heart of your product. You have to manage (um, treat) them just right, otherwise you could have product heartache on your […]

A new article in Design News looks at the state of design collaboration, specifically the steps being taken by design tool vendors to move design collaboration into the cloud (that place, according to the article, […]

If you’ve never seen the SawStop table saw in action, it’s worth watching this video for the sheer engineering vision it took to pull this off…. This is magical product design that changes lives. P.S. The story of […]

Most umbrellas today are cheap – literally and figuratively. They turn inside out at the slightest of winds. They are given away to advertise everything from tequila to the World Wildlife Fund. The handles are molded […]

You may think of James Cameron as a hopeless romantic or a sci-fi nerd, but an engineering manager? At this morning’s keynote presentation at SolidWorks World, that’s just how he fancied himself. When you think about […]

At the main stage session on the first day of SolidWorks World 2010 we got a sneak preview of “CAD in the cloud.” What? You can’t do that!!!  CAD will NEVER work on anything but desktop computers.  Right? Apparently, […]

In the fall of 2009, my good friend Tim Taylor and a squad of like-minded insane people decided to build a race car. This race car, to be precise: The car was built to compete in the 24 hours of LeMons race, an […]